Resources
This website includes information about Hispanic celebrations, biographies of 50 famous Hispanics, a list of additional links about Hispanics, popular Hispanic music genres, a quiz to test your knowledge of Hispanic culture, and events in Hispanic American history. Click the tabs below "Hispanic Heritage" to access these resources.http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/chh/bio/

Smithsonian Folkways is offering free music and videos from Latin American and from Hispanic communities in the U.S.
http://www.folkways.si.edu/tools_for_teaching/celebrate.aspx

This website includes biographies about notable Hispanic Americans: writers, athletes, film/television/theater personalities, leaders/activists, and musicians/visual artists.
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/hhmbioaz.html

This website has flags from countries where Spanish is spoken.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/flags/officiallanguage/spanish.shtml

This website is interactive and features information about Argentina, Panama, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Day of the Dead and Spain's relationship with the U.S. from 1763-1848.http://latino.si.edu/virtualgallery/LVGhome.html

Florida Department of Education recommended reading list
http://www.justreadfamilies.org/Reading/HHM.asp


Celebrating Hispanic Heritage with A&E Television Network's website. You will find biographies of Hispanics (historical figures, performers, writers, political figures, musicians, scientists, educators, explorers, and athletes), a Latino trivia game, a photo gallery, and information about 5 de mayo.
http://www.biography.com/hispanic-heritage/index.jsp]]


The Latino artists featured on this website expresses the rich and varied experience of being Latino in the United States.
http://americanart.si.edu/education/corazon/index.cfm

This website includes photographs by Manuel Carrillo of Mexico's indigenous people.
http://latino.si.edu/virtualgallery/manuelcarrillo/mccode.htm



Lesson Plans

This website includes links to lesson plan ideas. The website is broken in sections: elementary and middle school, middle and high school, and children's literature. Some of the links are no longer active.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/Hispanic_Heritage/